Karima Nabi is chased through a monkey park in a hilarious scene.Karima Nabi / SWNS.com

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This is the hilarious moment a student was chased through a tourist attraction by an angry monkey after she got too close trying to get a photograph.

Karima Nabi, 18, was trying to pose with the Barbary Macaque to take a picture to show her mom, Falmah, 44.

But the teen was forced to make a hasty retreat after the irate animal made a dash for her at Trentham Monkey Forest in Tittensor, Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom.

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A series of comical images first show Karima approaching the monkey, who is perched on the end of his enclosure.

But as the student, of Aston, Birmingham, leaned in closer, the primate suddenly lurched towards her the afternoon of August 18.

Karima was then forced to run for “around 15 seconds” as the monkey leapt towards her and started to run after her, before eventually giving up.

The hilarious pictures, which have been shared over 40,000 times, were taken by her sister Rahima, 21, a dentistry student at the University of Dundee.

Karima, who is due to start studying optometry at Cardiff University next month, said: “It was very scary, but hilarious at the same time.

“My sister was up visiting for the day, and we decided that the monkey park would be a good place to spend the day,” she said. “I had seen people posing up for pictures with the monkeys, and was really keen to get a similar picture to send to my mum, for a laugh. I saw the monkey at the end of his enclosure, and he looked to be quite friendly.

“I thought: ‘This is my chance.’

“I walked up to it, and Rahima was able to get the picture.”

Then, disaster strikes: “But then, out of absolutely nowhere, it jumped out at me,” she said.

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“My sister took the picture of it about to pounce, and as you can see I was pretty terrified at that point. The monkey was surprisingly fast, I think it’s the fastest I have ever had to run,” she recalled.

And, of course, sisterly love came into play.

“I would have expected Rahima to help me out, but instead she decided the whole thing would make for some good pictures.

“After about 15 seconds, it gave up. It must have got tired.

“A member of staff warned me not to get too close, and that that was why he had jumped out at me like that.

She admitted that she probably could have used better judgement to avoid the scene: “To be honest, it probably was my fault. I’m not very good with distance, and I often get meters and miles mixed up.”

That hasn’t stopped her from having a laugh at her own expense, though. “I posted up the pictures on Monday, because I thought that they were funny, but I never expected the reaction that they’ve got. It just shows how something can grab people’s attention on the internet these days.”